: Sun Aug 09, 2009 8:56 pm  

Greg Florimos Boots wrote:

I dont think he deserves to be dropped, lot more in the que before him but it says you cant just turn up go through the motions and expect to be in the team week after week.

PS am i the only one who saw that it was Gleeson who knocked on at the end of the game?

It was Gleeson who knocked on...you are spot on.

: Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:01 pm  

Its funny to me that people are blaiming Ben Black. You can't put three poor performances down to one man, how ridiculous, does that mean without him we are nothing then? and a one man team like people have said in the past?

Plenty of people have played badly over the last three weeks but i don't think he needs singling out, he hasn't been any worse than a lot of others. I at least saw effort from him today and you can always tell he wants it. Its difficult for him to play well with no1 supporting him and also no forwards making yards to build from.

: Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:01 pm  

Maybe a case of "I told you so" with the ding dong I had with littlerich re Ben Black. Great off the cuff player but when he's off ... jeez he's off ... to be serious GF contenders we need a captain of the ship like Cas and Salford had in NL seasons gone by, until then we'll entertain but then headless chicken it when it really matters. I love thwe club and will always stick by them, but for the first time in years I made for the bar before the HT hooter, I never did that even when Faz was coach.

: Sun Aug 09, 2009 9:38 pm  

-VIKINGMAN- wrote:

It's all them knock ons he does.

you guys did well 2day!

: Mon Aug 10, 2009 6:19 am  

Is it a possibilty that ben is playing with an injury still from his hand but with it being the business end of the season he's playing on?

: Mon Aug 10, 2009 6:55 am  

I don't think so no, as I have said you can't blaim Black, we are nit suppose to be a one man team so its no good singling him out.

As I have already said Ben Black can't play well swhen nobdy else around him is, he needs forward pressure to work with etc etc

: Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:09 am  

back to govin at 6 n black at 7. we were playing well when had them there at start of season.

: Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:40 am  

Black can't do everything by himself, which is what he had to do because bar Smith's try, Penky couldn't hold the ball for the first hour and very VERY few half backs can do everything by themselves. He was also behind a beaten pack and was made to look stupid as near enough every time he got the ball in the first half nobody ran angles for him and there was no protection from the speedy rush of the Haven defence.

: Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:05 am  

I think Blacky has lost his sparkle. Someone pointed out yesterday that he looks to have put a few pounds on around the guts which is prob why he aint got the Zip he had. Not on his own though as quite a few of the lads look to be carrying a little bit of extra weight that they didnt have at the beginning of the season.

: Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:16 am  

def didnt think ben did not spark yesterday, and penky seems to have taken on the role of spolit child - def think we need to shrug off these last three games and get back to thre attitude we had in the first half of the season

this leauge is ours for the takeing!

come on u bluuuuuuuuuuues